Mirjam Veldhuis


Born in 1961, lives and works in Stadskanaal.
www.mirjamveldhuis.nl
instagram.com/mirjamveldhuis4498/

TRAINING

1980-1985: Academie Minerva Groningen, department for ceramics, drawing (NL).


EXHIBITIONS

2019: 14th Westerwald Prize Exhibition, Keramikmuseum Westerwald, Höhr-Grenzhausen (D).
2015: Keramiek Trienale (2nd prize), CODA, Apeldoorn (NL).
2015: Ceramique 14, Paris, Netherlands, guest country.
2009 : Keramik Europas, Keramikmuseum Westerwald, Höhr-Grenzhausen (D).
2009 : New Loves, Het Princessehof, Leeuwarden (NL).
2004 : Wunderkammer, solo show, Gerhard Marcks Haus, Bremen (D).


Since autumn 2021, Mirjam Veldhuis has been working on a new series of one-off pieces entitled Holletje gemaakt (Made holes), combining earthenware and engobes, explores a number of physical notions inherent in the problem of sculpture in space. The artist questions the relationship between mass and volume, empty and full, as well as the way in which light can or cannot penetrate (...)


Find the full text in the 2023 exhibition catalog.